Patents Examined by Alicia M. Harrington
  • Patent number: 11221463
    Abstract: A zoom lens includes in order from an object side, a first lens unit having a negative refractive power, a second lens unit having a positive refractive power, a third lens unit having a positive refractive power, and a fourth lens unit having a positive refractive power. The first lens unit includes at least two negative lens components. The number of lenses in the third lens unit is larger than the number of lenses in the second lens unit. At the time of zooming from a wide angle end to a telephoto end, distances between lens units change, and the first lens unit, after moving toward an image side, moves toward the object side. In zooming in a state of being focused to an object at infinity, a distance between the second lens unit and the third lens unit becomes the widest at the wide angle end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Izumi Shomura
  • Patent number: 11204487
    Abstract: An optical imaging system includes five lens elements, the five lens elements being, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens element having positive refractive power; a second lens element having negative refractive power; a third lens element having positive refractive power; a fourth lens element having positive refractive power; and a fifth lens element having negative refractive power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chien-Hsun Wu, Tzu-Chieh Kuo, Kuan-Ming Chen
  • Patent number: 11204510
    Abstract: A lens driving device according to an embodiment comprises: a bobbin wherein at least one lens is installed inside thereof and a first coil is installed on the outer circumferential surface thereof; a first magnet arranged around the bobbin so as to be opposite to the first coil; a housing for supporting the first magnet; upper and lower elastic members coupled with the bobbin and the housing; a first sensor for sensing displacement of the bobbin in the first direction; a second magnet arranged so as to be opposite to the first sensor; a base arranged to be spaced apart from the housing by a certain distance; a second coil arranged so as to be opposite to the first magnet; a circuit board whereon the second coil is installed; a plurality of support members for supporting the housing so as to be movable in the second and third directions which are orthogonal to the first direction with respect to the base and for connecting at least one of the upper and lower elastic members to the circuit board; and a second
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: LG Innotek Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tae Jin Jung, Sang Jun Min, Sung Guk Lee
  • Patent number: 11204449
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the field of optical lenses and provides a wide-angle lens. The wide-angle lens includes, from an object side to an image side: a first lens having a positive refractive power, a second lens having a negative refractive power, a third lens having a negative refractive power, a fourth lens, a fifth lens and a sixth lens. The wide-angle lens satisfies following conditions: 10.00R5/d530.00; 15.00R9/d950.00; ?20.00(R1+R2)/(R1?R2)?1.00; and 2.75d1/d35.00. The wide-angle lens can achieve a high imaging performance while obtaining a low TTL.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: AAC Optics Solutions Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Teraoka, Lei Zhang, Yanmei Wang, Yi Ji
  • Patent number: 11194079
    Abstract: A lens unit includes a first lens array including first lenses arranged in at least two lines; a second lens array including second lenses arranged in an arrangement relationship corresponding to the first lens array, the second lenses respectively facing the first lenses, the second lens array being arranged to face the first lens array so that each pair of the first and second lenses has a common optical axis; and a first light blocking member arranged between the first lens array and the second lens array and having first openings each being arranged to face the pair of the first and second lenses in a direction of the optical axis. An interval PXL from an array center position between two adjacent lines to the optical axis and an interval PXS from the array center position to an opening center of the first opening satisfy PXL<PXS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Akihiro Yamamura
  • Patent number: 11194136
    Abstract: An optical system includes: a first lens group with negative refractive power at an object side of an aperture stop; a second lens group with positive refractive power at an image plane side of the aperture stop; and a third lens group with positive refractive power at the image plane side of the second lens group. The first lens group includes a first lens with negative refractive power and concave image plane side, a second lens of meniscus type, with negative refractive power, and convex image plane side, and a third lens with positive refractive power and convex object side. The second lens group includes a fourth lens with positive refractive power and convex image plane side; a fifth lens of meniscus type, with negative refractive power, and convex object side; and a sixth lens with negative refractive power and concave object side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: NITTOH INC.
    Inventor: Kenji Iijima
  • Patent number: 11187916
    Abstract: A camera assembly comprises a support structure and an image sensor mounted on a carrier that is suspended on the support structure by at least one plain bearing that allows movement of the carrier and the image sensor relative to the support structure in any direction laterally to the light-sensitive region of the image sensor. An actuator arrangement comprising plural shape memory alloy wires is arranged to move the carrier and the image sensor relative to the support structure for providing optical image stabilisation of the image captured by the image sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: CAMBRIDGE MECHATRONICS LIMITED
    Inventor: Andrew Benjamin David Brown
  • Patent number: 11175473
    Abstract: An interchangeable lens is removably attached to a camera body including a body-side mount, an image sensor, body-side terminals and a first to fourth body-side claws. The interchangeable lens includes the lens-side mount, lens-side terminals which are in contact with body-side terminals, a first to fourth lens-side claws engaged with the first to fourth body-side claws once the interchangeable lens is attached to the camera body. The first and third lens-side claws are disposed on a third lens-side line intersecting with the first lens-side line at an optical axis with approximately 45 degrees. The first lens-side line passes through a center between opposite ends of the first lens-side claw to the optical axis. The second and fourth lens-side claws are disposed on a fourth lens-side line orthogonal to the third lens-side line at the optical axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji Nagaoka, Noriyasu Kotani
  • Patent number: 11169385
    Abstract: A laser optical device includes: an optical fiber unit for transmitting a laser beam; a connector for connecting the optical fiber unit; a collimator for transforming the laser beam into a parallel beam; and a condenser lens unit for condensing the parallel beam. The parallel beam emitted from the condenser lens unit is a flat-top beam. A laser optical head includes: a housing; a connector located in the housing and for connecting an optical fiber unit; a collimator formed at one side of the connector located in the housing and for transforming a laser beam transmitted from the optical fiber unit into a parallel beam; and a condenser lens unit located in the housing and for condensing the parallel beam. The parallel beam emitted from the condenser lens unit is a flat-top beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignees: Laservall Asia Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Byoung-Chan Choi, Ki-Seok Kang
  • Patent number: 11163137
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the technical field of optical lens and discloses a camera optical lens satisfying following conditions: 10.00<f4/f<31.00; 2.80<v3/v2<4.00; 1.60<n4<2.10; and 5.00<d5/d6<21.00; where f denotes a focal length of the camera optical lens; f4 denotes a focal length of the third lens; v2 denotes an abbe number of the first lens; v3 denotes an abbe number of the second lens; n4 denotes a refractive index of the d line of the third lens; d5 denotes an on-axis thickness of the second lens, and d6 denotes an on-axis distance from the image-side surface of the second lens to the object-side surface of the third lens. The camera optical lens in the present disclosure satisfies a design requirement of wide angle, large aperture and fingerprint recognition while having good optical performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: AAC Optics Solutions Pte. Ltd.
    Inventor: Xuqi Bian
  • Patent number: 11163211
    Abstract: An actuator includes a magnet, a driving coil facing the magnet, a driver, and a position calculation processor. The driver is configured to move the magnet in at least one of an optical axis direction and a direction perpendicular to the optical axis by applying a driving signal to the driving coil. The position calculation processor includes sensing coils, and is configured to calculate a position of the magnet according to inductance levels of an inductor of the sensing coils. The inductance levels vary according to movements of the magnet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hong Joo Lee, Dong Yeon Shin, Nam Ki Park, Shin Young Cheong, Byung Gi Ahn, Hoon Heo, Je Hyun Bang, Yun Tae Lee, Ick Chan Shim, Young Bok Yoon
  • Patent number: 11143836
    Abstract: A zoom lens includes a first lens group with a negative refractive power, a second lens group with a positive refractive power, and a third lens group with a positive refractive power. When the zoom lens changes from a wide angle end to a telephoto end, a spacing between the first lens group and the second lens group is reduced, and a spacing between the second lens group and the third lens group changes. The first lens group includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, and a fourth lens. Refractive powers of the first lens, the second lens, and the third lens are negative, and a refractive power of the fourth lens is positive. Abbe numbers of the first lens, the second lens, and the third lens are larger than 60. A ratio of a focal length of the first lens group over a focal length of the zoom lens at a wide angle end is larger than ?2.5 and smaller than ?1.2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: SZ DJI TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shigehiko Matsunaga, Atsushi Ohata, Atsuo Minato
  • Patent number: 11137586
    Abstract: A zoom lens consists of, in order from the object side to the image side, a first lens unit having a positive refractive power and configured not to be moved for zooming, a second lens unit having a negative refractive power and configured to be moved for zooming, and a rear lens group including at least one lens unit. The first lens unit includes at least six lenses, a lens closest to the object side included in the first lens unit is a negative lens, and the zoom lens satisfies conditional expressions: ?1.65<f1n/f1<?1.10; 37<?1n<48; and 87<?pave<100, where f1n is a focal length of the negative lens, ?1n is an Abbe number of the negative lens with respect to d-line, f1 is a focal length of the first lens unit, and ?pave is an average of Abbe numbers of positive lenses included in the first lens unit with respect to d-line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuya Shimomura, Naotoshi Ogawa, Masao Hori
  • Patent number: 11137577
    Abstract: A photographing optical lens assembly includes six lens elements, which are, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element and a sixth lens element. Each of the six lens elements has an object-side surface towards the object side and an image-side surface towards the image side. The first lens element has positive refractive power. The image-side surface of the fourth lens element is concave in a paraxial region thereof. The fifth lens element has positive refractive power, the object-side surface of the fifth lens element is convex in a paraxial region thereof, and the image-side surface of the fifth lens element is convex in a paraxial region thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tzu-Chieh Kuo
  • Patent number: 11106003
    Abstract: A lens barrel includes a first lens holder configured to hold a lens and movable along an optical axis in the lens, a cylindrical member configured to hold the first lens holder on an internal circumference surface, first and second rolling members provided to the first lens holder, and rotatably disposed at different positions in an optical axis direction of the lens, a third rolling member rotatably provided to the first lens holder, and an urging member configured to urge the third rolling member against an internal surface of the cylindrical member to an outside in a radial direction of the lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tomoki Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 11099306
    Abstract: A Fresnel lens with Fresnel prisms having a first facet, called the main facet, and a second facet, called the draft facet, the draft facet making a draft angle to the optical axis, the draft angle being variable along at least one Fresnel prism, so that the draft angle is higher on one side of the lens than on the other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: VALEO VISION
    Inventors: Antoine De Lamberterie, Samira Mbata, Nicolas Lefaudeux, Thomas Canonne, Van-Thai Hoang, Vincent Dubois, Francois-Xavier Amiel
  • Patent number: 11099349
    Abstract: An optical driving mechanism is provided, configured to force an optical element, including a base, a movable portion, and a driving portion. The movable portion is disposed and connected to the base. The movable portion includes a holder configured to sustain the optical element, a magnetic element, and a fixing member. The magnetic element and the fixing member are affixed to the holder, wherein the fixing member has a permeable material. The driving portion is configured to force the movable portion to move relative to the base, wherein the driving portion includes a piezoelectric element and a support member connecting thereto. The piezoelectric element and the support member are disposed on the base and connected to the movable portion. The fixing member makes contact with the support member via a magnetic attraction force between the magnetic element and the fixing member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: TDK TAIWAN CORP.
    Inventors: Ichitai Moto, Chih-Wei Weng, Sin-Jhong Song
  • Patent number: 11069139
    Abstract: A method of operating an optical device is provided. The method includes selecting at least one of a first mode for recognizing virtual reality (VR) content, a second mode for recognizing augmented reality (AR) content, and a third mode for recognizing mixed reality (MR) content, and based on a result of the selecting, performing at least one of the first mode by controlling a display to allow a user to recognize the VR content via a lens, the second mode by controlling the display to allow the user to recognize the AR content via the lens and a first mirror, and the third mode for controlling the display and a camera to allow the user to recognize the MR content via the lens, the first mirror, and a second mirror.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Oleksandr Shchur, Oleksandr Radomskyi, Yevgen Yakishyn, Gennadiy Kis
  • Patent number: 11067801
    Abstract: A head-mounted display device includes a display including a substrate and a plurality of display elements disposed on the substrate, a first polarizing layer disposed on the display, a reflective layer disposed on the first polarizing layer, a light-separating layer disposed on the reflective layer, a lens disposed on the light-separating layer, and a second polarizing layer disposed on the lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wal Jun Kim, Jin Yeong Kim, Ki Wan Ahn, Joo Sun Yoon, Yong Jae Jang
  • Patent number: 11061203
    Abstract: A zoom lens includes, in order from object side, a negative first unit, a positive second unit, a negative third unit, and a positive fourth unit, wherein, for zooming to telephoto end, the second unit moves toward object side, the third unit moves and an interval between each pair of adjacent units is changed, wherein, at telephoto end as compared to wide angle end, the interval between the first and second units is smaller, the interval between the second and third units is larger, the interval between the third and fourth units is larger, and the fourth unit is positioned closer to image side, wherein the third unit consists of a single optical element, wherein the fourth unit includes plural lenses arranged at intervals, and wherein focal lengths of the third and fourth units and the interval between the third and fourth units at telephoto end are appropriately set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hirofumi Abe, Shinji Yamasaki, Masakazu Kodaira